What Makes a Publisher Important?
I like the direction this article heads, but I'm not so sure publishers will, if they follow its implications to their logical conclusion. The article proposes, in brief, that an article may be measured for importance by "the relative number of citations of a search engine as the evaluation criteria." By implication, a journal that accumulates a greater aggregate score is probably better than one with fewer links. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Scholarly publishing organization is considering the issue, amid calls to do more about those who mistreat students and colleagues but appear to go unpunished. Some contracts have been canceled. More...

Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing
A nice analysis of the economics of open access publication for academic societies. As the author notes, the bulk of income for these societies is derived from journal subscriptions, so at first glance they would take a significant hit were fees to be waived. But for many societies (probably the majority), the cost of publishing the journal exceeds subscription revenues, and so the publication is in general a drain on revenue from mebers' fees. More...

Journals Lose Citations to Preprint Servers
Phil Davis, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2018/05/21
"It’s hard to understand why an author would still cite the preprint years after it has been formally published in a journal," writes Phil Davis. More...